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Excerpt from The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1865, Vol. 35 The Council, in submitting their Annual Report of the financial state and progress of the Royal Geographical Society, refer with satisfaction to the evidence it affords of another year of prosperity and usefulness. Members. - Since the last Anniversary 102 Fellows have been elected, namely, 158 Ordinary (of whom 12 have paid their Life Compositions), 1 Honorary, and 3 Honorary Corresponding. During the same period the Society has lost 68 Fellows (besides 4 Honorary Corresponding), namely, 47 by death, and 21 by resignation; the total number on the list at the end of April of the present year being 1997 Ordinary, 65 Honorary Corresponding, and 5 Honorary Fellows. The number of Ordinary Fellows at the end of April, 1864, was 1907; the list shows, therefore, an increase of 90 during the year. Finances. - As will be seen in the annexed Balance-sheet, the receipts for the year 1864 exceeded, by a small sum, the estimate given in the last year's Report; the actual amount (exclusive of the balance in hand) being 4977l. 8s. 6d., and the estimated amount (also exclusive of the cash balance) 4965l. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.